47 quotes found
“Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.”
“Home. This was my mantra, my four-letter savior.”
“Home.” This was my mantra, my four-letter savior.”
“I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.”
“Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.”
“If anyone thinks interracial "anything" is a big deal, they're probably inbred.”
“Czechs simply dont say theyre going camping or spending time outdoors. They say, in Czech, that they are going into the nature as though nature, proda, is beyond a place in the woods or other forms...”
“A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.”
“The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their pockets with misappropriated funds as military personnel and hordes of civilians are maimed...”
“There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there are others who want to keep silent and repress the memories, and all their family and frie...”
“In movies, war only looks romantic. Tell my gal I love her close-up shot, and fade out. It doesnt work as beautifully and neat in real life. Flying chunks of human flesh and screaming orphans reall...”
“Everyone around me was allowed, permitted to fall apart; yet I had to think twice. I couldn't bear to take another dip into an ocean of solitude for another taste of ostracization. I felt I would die.”
“When youre persistently deleted from history, media, and any other channel to access information or that information is distorted its far worse than physically killing someone. It, instead, induc...”
“It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.”
“Aside from clinically-diagnosed psychopaths, I have not met one person in war who thoroughly enjoyed killing. If someone ended up bragging over a kill, it was safe to assume that their story was me...”
“Veterans being sent into unjust wars for corporate profit is a perversion of trust, at best. I found the emotional manipulation of both sides, the propaganda at play so incredibly revolting that I ...”
“A woman in combat? Yes. Since when? Since Native American warrior Buffalo Calf Road Woman knocked that prick General George Custer off of his horse. Since Pantea Arteshbod propelled herself to beco...”
“To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make it to safety.”
“A moving target is harder to kill, and I didn't stop running, maneuvering, until I reached home base, where I could breathe between death-defying sprints. I just need to make it home alive, and thi...”
“Whether its an Iraqi widow mourning her dead loved ones standing helplessly in the rubble of her former home or a dying soldier in an Iraqi city street asking, Why, God? Why is this happening? Wher...”
“That seductive aroma of unchecked power was more than enough to commit genocide and mass sexual assault while unashamedly carrying their nations flag draped around a crucifix. People completely dev...”
“It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.”
“With even the slightest upset, detachment soon followed. I didnt lose sleep over men, and I was too restless to be tied down. The grass didnt even have time to grow around my feet before I was plan...”
“The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me.”
